By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews - The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops will convene next month to elect a new president and six committee chairmen, a routine vote overshadowed by a recent uproar over the Archdiocese of Chicago’s plan to honor pro-abortion Senator Dick Durbin with a lifetime achievement award... The plenary assembly, set for November 10-12 in Baltimore, comes amid lingering fallout from the controversy, which drew sharp rebukes from several bishops who decried the recognition as a scandal undermining the church’s core teachings on the sanctity of life.